3 ways to turn me from an email subscriber to a raving fan — I am rapidly growing impatient with people who are building (or trying to build) an online business without getting real and vulnerable. Yes, I can appreciate those people who have their sh*t together enough to send out high-quality, topic-specific content on a regular basis. Or even just semi-regularly. It definitely…

It starts with Change and ends with .org — I started an email to tell the people in my circles about Change.org, and then it occurred to me that maybe it would be helpful for people beyond my email circle to know about it, so here you have it… If you haven’t heard of it, Change.org is a powerful…

I don’t know if it actually slows time down, but it sure feels like it — It started when I was in college. I was in a long distance relationship for four years with the man who would become my husband. I was a student at at University of Chicago, he was managing a 5-star hotel in Paris. We would see each other every 3–6 months…

How co-parenting helps me embrace the rhythms of life — Depending on your religious beliefs, life may or may not be a one-way ticket with a clear beginning and end. But one thing that’s clear is that while we’re living this lifetime on this planet, life ebbs and flows in a cyclical nature, just like in the rest of nature…

This isn’t a #metoo story. He genuinely meant it. — We were at Angelo and Maxie’s, a steakhouse on Park Avenue in Manhattan. The year was 2003. I was twenty one years old. He was easily triple my age. I was waiting to eat dinner at the restaurant with him and the two men who, presumably, worked for him. They…

How I navigated through four states and a ridiculous amount of mechanical issues — It was 11 am. We had set our alarm for 6:30 that morning so we could hit the road earlier in the day than usual. We were sitting in the the parking lot after eating breakfast at IHOP. The kids were in the car. My girlfriend, Annie, and I were…

My communication skills, empathy training and marketing background certainly helped, even if my evidence is only anecdotal — First off, let’s set the record straight. This was not a formal study and by “a conversion rate of 33%” I mean that I helped change the mind of exactly ONE person (that I know of — so far). But, considering that I only sent out six initial emails all…

Behind-the-scenes of the timeline, skills and mindset that let me get it done so dang fast — Launch day was Nov 14, 2014. We had been publishing our monthly online newsletter for nearly two years. We were trying to build a business positioning my husband as an expert in his field. The niche was an up-and-coming sport called pickleball. From my perspective, it was clear that the…

Out of so many atrocities against black people, here’s why this one has already bent the arc of history — I woke up this morning replaying the video of the George Floyd killing in my mind. It was horrifying, in part because it goes far beyond the usual “Jumpy cop shoots young black man because he thought [innocent object] was a gun” storyline. Not only that one man acted like…